Putting the mugshot client in fedora-extras

[Owen Taylor]

On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 00:15 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:

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> On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 13:27:33 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
> >  - If we could simply get the mugshot client excluded from the 
> >    creation of the fedora-extras yum repository metadata, then we 
> >    could build packages ahead of time, and later offer them through our
> >    current upgrade process. (or through our own yum repository.)
> > 
> >    Would it be completely ridiculous to ask that createrepo be run 
> >    for the FE repository with --exclude=mugshot* ?
> 
> Excluding them from the metadata would be possible, since createrepo is
> run from within a wrapper script (unless somebody runs it directly ;). But
> it would also exclude them from repoclosure tests and hide them in
> repoview. This could be considered a bug if a package in the repository is
> "not available" via yum and other package tools.
> 
> > Do people have other ideas about how it could work?
> 
> They could be excluded at a lower level, so they never make it into the FE
> repository, but could be mirrored from the needsign repository by you.
> That way you could control better which versions to keep. E.g. if you made
> two consecutive releases to fix bugs, that would throw out older releases
> from the FE repository.

Is there an overview somewhere of how the process of getting from the
build system to the FE repository works? What you say about excluding
the packages from the FE repository entirely sounds right to me, but
I'm not really sure what I'd be asking for to enable that :-)

Thanks,
						- Owen